Suriya’s Kanguva’s South Indian digital rights sold to Amazon Prime for record price of Rs 80 crore

Suriya’s Kanguva is making all the right noise. The historical fictional film, directed by Siruthai Siva, is touted to be the biggest film in Suriya’s career in terms of budget. Now, it is said that the film’s digital rights have been sold at an unprecedented price. According to the film’s producer Gnanavelraja of Studio Green, the film’s South Indian digital rights alone have been sold to Amazon Prime Video for Rs 80 crore.

When asked about the market of Suriya, in an interview with the Galatta Tamil YouTube channel, Gnanavelraja said, “I should say it myself. All news will come out one by one. For now, we have finished the deal with Amazon for the digital rights. Not just the entire digital rights… just the South Indian languages rights of the film have been sold for Rs 80 crore. This is a benchmark for the South Indian cinema industry. No other films have done such a high budget. So, I leave it to you to calculate the other business of the film.”

He also revealed that the teaser of the film will be released in June: “I know fans will be frustrated that we haven’t shared the look of Suriya yet. But when we reveal it finally, it will be a hit. Currently, we have five big stars of different film industries dubbing for the film, that’s why it is getting delayed.”

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The producer also addressed the criticism that the film looks like a rip-off of the action-adventure game, Ghost of Tsushima. “The film is a complete imagination of Siva sir based on some incidents that happened in the 16th century. It is not inspired by anything,” he said.

Kanguva will be released in ten languages because that is the only way to recover the budget spent on the film, according to Gnanavelraja. The film marks the debut of Disha Patani in Tamil, and it will be released next year.